1. Objectifs

Intentions :
« We sought in present study to examine the relations among parental behaviors, students’ emotional problems, and students’ achievement goals by overcoming some of the limitations found in the literature [...]. » (p. 499)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
« Data for this study came from the first two waves of a longitudinal study on the trajectories of socioemotional and academic functioning of students during the transition to middle school. The sample consisted of 498 Grade 6 students [...]. » (p. 500)

Instruments :
Questionnaires

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

« Our main goal in this study was to examine the role of students’ emotional problems (i.e., anxiety and depression) as potential mechanisms explaining the relation between parental behaviors during the last year of elementary school and achievement goals adopted by early adolescents in their first year of middle school. Two major hypotheses were formulated in this respect. First, we expected that parental involvement would predict less emotional problems among early adolescents, which would in turn predict a mastery goal orientation. Second, parental control was expected to predict early adolescents’ emotional problems, which were expected to predict the adoption of performance goals. The results partially supported the mediation hypothesis in which the contribution of parental control on performance goals was mediated by early adolescents’ symptoms of anxiety. » (p. 502)